Quote Originally Posted by MagicalChase View Post
You saw how they removed all complexity from summoner? That's the cannary in the coal mine. Every job is getting that treatment. Every job will become so simple that newborns could play it. People will defend it by saying "but the damage is now added to the skill alwasy" yeah and it feels worse to play. This is the future of ffxiv.
Kaiten is not complex. It is exactly the right button to cull from the job because all it does for gameplay is it makes you sit on kenki until you hit 35 so you can always kaiten a iaijutsu. This is not complex, or exciting and it's loss doesn't even really change anything, since you will still want to sit on 10 kenki for movement skills so you're still building to 35. It is the most no-thoughts button in the job.

I don't even really think it looks all that cool since it's an ogcd so it gets clipped constantly. It certainly isn't as cool as the big damage numbers you see from auto-crit midare+analogs. It also makes the hw content not feel like trash since you don't generate enough kenki to kaiten every iaijutsu you use, which is a nice side benefit.